Corpora
Welcome to the FormosanBank Corpora section! Here, you’ll find comprehensive documentation of the corpora used in FormosanBank. Each corpus in this collection represents a unique linguistic dataset, encompassing various types of text and audio recordings. Our corpora are designed to support linguistic research, language education, and revitalization efforts, making these endangered languages accessible and analyzable for researchers, educators, and community members alike. Below is a list of the current corpora of which FormosanBank consists:
ePark (text, audio, English, Mandarin)
ILRDF Dictionaries (text, audio, Mandarin)
Wikipedias (text)
Presidential Apologies (text, English, Mandarin)
NTU Paiwan ASR (text, audio)
Virginia Fey's Amis Dictionary (text, English, Mandarin)
Paiwan Stories (text, audio, Mandarin)
Rau-Dong (text, glossing, English, Mandarin)
The Montgomery Texts (text, English)
The Wakelin Texts (text, English, segmented)
100 Paiwan Texts (text, glossing, English)
FormosanBank GitBook (text, English, Mandarin)
SEALS 33 (text, Mandarin, English)
Glosbe (text, English, Mandarin)
Whitehorn Collection (audio)
Yedda Palemeq Blog (text, English, segmentation, audio)
Siraya Gospels (text, English, Mandarin, Dutch)
Wilang Yutas Videos (text, Mandarin, audio)
Tang Recordings of Taroko (audio)
NTU Corpus of Formosan Languages (text, audio, glossing)
Truku Word Formation (Hsu Thesis) (text, glossing, Mandarin)
Safolu Amis Dictionary (text, Mandarin)
Latham 1862 (text, English)
Song (2018) Kanakanavu Grammar text, glossing, Mandarin
Li (2014) Conjunction in Thao (text, glossing, English)
Campbell-Favorlang (text, English)
Utrecht Manuscript Word List (text, English, Dutch)
Huteson (2003) Rukai Survey (text, English, Rukai, word and morpheme glosses)
Sato Pazeh Songs (text, Japanese)
Wu: Amis Pa-Verbs (text, English, glossing)
Blust (2003) Thao Dictionary (text, English, segmented)
Corpus Statistics
By language
Word count
87,457
2,576,762
249,946
22,112
127,016
275,642
43,173
422,746
230,655
356
165,361
63,050
1,751,644
119,295
887,478
1,009,622
88,015
114,294
101,824
Total audio
84.4h
121.6h
125.4h
0
53.8h
154.3h
0
168.9h
119.9h
0
41.4h
45.9h
49.0h
40.5h
171.2h
92.2h
41.0h
65.1h
47.0h
Transcribed
41.6h
121.2h
125.4h
0
53.8h
154.3h
0
134.1h
119.9h
0
41.4h
45.9h
49.0h
40.5h
160.0h
92.1h
41.0h
65.1h
47.0h
Untranscribed
42.8h
0.4h
0
0
0
0
0
34.8h
0
0
0
0
0
0
11.2h
0.1h
0
0
0
Translated words
English
11,370
126,324
66,402
9,561
27,300
65,067
43,161
74,111
40,780
0
74,694
8,760
19,888
25,478
67,520
50,350
21,413
24,418
22,156
Mandarin
87,325
533,075
249,762
0
126,985
274,819
41,851
210,690
230,491
0
101,796
63,034
101,445
118,409
307,673
217,319
87,978
114,252
101,160
Japanese
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
351
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Dutch
0
0
0
0
0
0
42,913
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Morphologically segmented
1,130
7,682
23,463
0
16,286
17,344
2
29,031
0
0
56,656
0
12,968
14,167
5,861
22,803
10,200
22,853
10,849
Glossed words
1,047
7,682
23,463
0
16,286
17,344
0
24,556
0
0
211
0
12,968
14,166
5,861
22,803
10,195
22,846
10,848
By dialect
Amis Coastal
Amis Hengchun
Amis Malan
Amis Southern
Amis Xiuguluan
Amis unknown
Bunun Junqun
Bunun Kaqun
Bunun Luanqun
Bunun Tanqun
Bunun Zhuoqun
Babuza-Favorlang Favorlang
Rukai Dawu
Rukai Dona
Rukai Eastern
Rukai Maolin
Rukai Wanshan
Rukai Wutai
Paiwan Central
Paiwan Eastern
Paiwan Northern
Paiwan Southern
Paiwan unknown
Puyuma Jianhe
Puyuma Nanwang
Puyuma Xiqun
Puyuma Zhiben
Pazeh unknown
Atayal FourSeasons
Atayal Sekolik
Atayal Wanda
Atayal Wenshui
Atayal YilanZeaol
Atayal Zeaol
Atayal unknown
Seediq DeluValley
Seediq Duda
Seediq Tegudaya
Seediq unknown
Word count
310,205
36,726
35,979
36,318
85,137
2,072,397
131,540
29,637
30,240
29,700
28,829
22,112
29,959
28,651
30,129
27,713
24,434
134,756
44,069
60,270
134,637
58,923
124,847
35,216
118,867
37,017
39,555
356
38,123
140,278
30,977
42,774
40,168
39,189
555,969
39,565
41,166
136,271
792,620
Total audio
29.0h
20.4h
16.8h
18.5h
36.6h
0.4h
60.3h
15.9h
15.8h
17.1h
16.2h
0
18.9h
17.8h
18.8h
17.5h
16.8h
64.5h
21.7h
33.4h
62.5h
26.6h
24.7h
18.9h
59.6h
19.8h
21.6h
0
18.3h
72.7h
17.5h
21.2h
20.6h
19.8h
1.1h
23.3h
20.2h
48.6h
0.1h
Transcribed
29.0h
20.4h
16.8h
18.5h
36.6h
0
60.3h
15.9h
15.8h
17.1h
16.2h
0
18.9h
17.8h
18.8h
17.5h
16.8h
64.5h
20.6h
29.6h
58.7h
25.1h
0
18.9h
59.6h
19.8h
21.6h
0
18.3h
62.5h
17.5h
21.2h
20.6h
19.8h
0
23.3h
20.2h
48.6h
0
Untranscribed
0
0
0
0
0
0.4h
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1.1h
3.8h
3.8h
1.5h
24.7h
0
0
0
0
0
0
10.1h
0
0
0
0
1.1h
0
0
0
0.1h
Translated words
English
17,367
9,425
9,306
10,323
20,258
59,645
33,027
8,106
8,611
8,121
8,537
9,561
7,576
7,995
8,183
7,320
6,537
27,456
16,251
12,508
19,027
25,203
1,122
9,218
11,536
9,887
10,139
0
9,456
12,665
9,145
16,464
9,497
9,716
577
9,356
10,044
30,814
136
Mandarin
309,016
36,710
35,979
35,968
84,780
30,622
131,442
29,621
30,224
29,684
28,791
0
29,935
28,262
30,061
27,485
24,367
134,709
36,702
38,352
97,721
37,915
0
35,182
118,777
36,993
39,539
0
38,073
116,617
30,913
42,745
40,152
39,173
0
39,428
41,085
136,246
560
Japanese
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
351
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Dutch
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Morphologically segmented
7,682
0
0
0
0
0
23,463
0
0
0
0
0
0
29
0
23
0
17,292
3,719
1,198
9,021
13,971
1,122
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5,861
0
0
0
0
0
22,803
0
Glossed words
7,682
0
0
0
0
0
23,463
0
0
0
0
0
0
29
0
23
0
17,292
3,719
1,198
9,021
9,496
1,122
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5,861
0
0
0
0
0
22,803
0
Coming Soon
In addition to the wide range of corpora already incorporated into FormosanBank, there is a large number of further corpora that permission to include in FormosanBank has been obtained and they are being processed at the moment. Below are some of these corpora:
Matthew's Gospel and John's Gospel (Siraya)
The Sedik Language of Formosa by Erin Asai (Seediq)
Chang's Seediq Reference Grammar (Seediq)
Chang's Kavalan reference grammar (Kavalan)
Poinsot Amis Dictionary (Amis)
Moedict Amis (Amis)
Asai's Seediq Language of Formosan (Seediq)
hala saku la (videos - Atayal)
hala saku la (text - Atayal)
Tung's Descriptive study of Tsou (Tsou)
Jeng (1992) Topic and focus in Bunun (Bunun)
Blust's Thao Dictionary (Thao)
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